Media Services
Get more life, and more proof, out of the media you already own.
Most storage that gets thrown away still had life left in it. We read what a card can really do, put the healthy ones back to work with a certificate, and destroy the rest to standard, for SD, microSD/TF, CompactFlash and USB, in volume.
Why it pays
The cheapest card is the one you already have
New media is a recurring cost, and a lot of what gets replaced was never spent. Here’s where the money is.
Reuse instead of replace
A card at a few per cent of its rated cycles is nowhere near finished. We prove which ones are healthy and put them straight back into service.
Cut your media bill
Recertifying a good card costs a fraction of buying new. Across a fleet of cards and drives, that difference adds up fast.
Never pay for a fake
We catch re-marked and fake-capacity cards on the silicon, before a counterfeit costs you money or fails in the field.
Compliant by default
Certified erasure to NIST 800-88, reaching the areas a delete can’t, with the paperwork that proves the data is gone.
Start with your problem
Tell us what you need to do
You don’t need to know which service you want, just what you’re trying to solve. Here’s how we help with the jobs we hear most.
“I need to recertify a batch of cards.”
We health-check every card, securely wipe and re-certify the ones that pass, and hand back a batch report plus a certificate per card. The healthy ones go back into service; the worn ones are retired with proof.
“I’ve got cards that held CCTV or dashcam footage to dispose of.”
That footage is personal data. We erase to NIST 800-88, reaching remapped and hidden blocks a normal delete leaves behind, and certify each card, so disposal stands up to GDPR scrutiny.
“I’m buying media and need to know it’s genuine.”
We verify true capacity and authenticity from the controller, unmasking re-marked and fake-capacity cards before they ever reach the field.
“I need identical copies of a production run.”
We duplicate to hundreds of cards, each verified byte-for-byte against the master and logged. (Available on request as we bring this online.)
“I’ve got media piling up and don’t want to bin it.”
We grade, wipe and certify it, so it’s reused or resold with a clean bill of health instead of going to landfill.
Something else?
If your job doesn’t fit a box, tell us what you’re trying to do, we’ll come back with an approach and a fixed quote.
Describe your jobThe services
Four things we do to your media
Certified erasure
Data gone, and proven gone.
NIST 800-88 Clear and Purge, reaching remapped and hidden areas a file delete can’t touch. A certificate for every card.
Health & authenticity
Know a card’s truth before you trust it.
True capacity, wear and counterfeit tells read straight from the silicon, so you act on fact, not the label.
Certification & reporting
Proof that stands up.
A per-card certificate and a whole-job report, chain of custody, and a verifiable evidence reference. Scales to thousands.
Duplication
Hundreds of cards, identical and logged.
Byte-for-byte verified cloning of cards and drives against a master. Available on request as we bring it online.
Every card, on the record
The card passport
Before we touch a card, ASTRID reads its identity and health straight from the controller, make, true capacity, serial, wear and authenticity. No guessing from the label.
That record is the card’s passport. It’s what tells a healthy card from a spent one, a genuine card from a fake, and it’s the basis of every certificate we issue, so the proof you get back is grounded in the silicon, not our word for it.
Card Passport
Read on the silicon · CMD56
118 program/erase cycles · 4% used
- Make & model
- SanDisk Industrial
- Format
- microSDXC · UHS-I
- Capacity
- 128 GB
- CID serial
- 0x1A2B3C4D
- Manufacturer
- SanDisk · MID 0x03
- Manufactured
- 03 / 2024
Certificate ASTRID-SAMPLE-0001 · specimen data
How a job runs
- 1
Intake & log
Every item is booked in and identified, make, format, serial, so nothing is lost and everything is traceable.
- 2
Assess
We read identity, true capacity and health on each card, and flag anything counterfeit or worn before we act on it.
- 3
Process
Duplicate or securely erase, to the standard the job needs.
- 4
Verify
We prove the result on the silicon, not just the file system, so a wipe is confirmed, not assumed.
- 5
Certify
A certificate per card and a report for the job, with a verifiable evidence reference.
Proof, not promises
What you get on paper
Every card leaves with a certificate, and every job with a report. Here are illustrative specimens, the real thing carries your job's own data and a verifiable evidence reference.
Certificate of Media Sanitisation
The formal per-card certificate, media identity, condition, the NIST 800-88 level achieved, and an evidence-integrity reference.
Download sample (PDF) Batch recertification report
The whole-job report: an executive summary and a line per card, with each card linking to its own certificate. Scales to thousands of cards.
Download sample (PDF)Specimens only, watermarked and built with fictional data; not valid certificates.
In practice
Where it’s used
CCTV footage
Prepare, duplicate and certify surveillance media for retention or disclosure, with continuity you can evidence.
Dashcam & fleet
Handle high volumes of vehicle footage for insurance, claims and incident review, wiped and certified between uses.
Retiring media
Decommission old cards and drives with certified erasure, so nothing recoverable leaves your control.
Production runs
Clone content to hundreds of cards, each verified identical to the master and traceable by serial.
For resellers & IT providers
White-label the whole line
Your branding on the certificate, our line doing the work. Offer certified erasure, recertification and refurbished media to your own customers without building any of it. Talk to us about volume terms.
Have media to duplicate, wipe or certify?
Send us the details and we’ll come back with a fixed quote and turnaround.